Ever since I purchased my Nokia n800 last year, it has become an integral part of my life, much to the chagrin of my wife. It is described by its creators as an “internet tablet.” Along with the n800, some of you might have its predecessor the Nokia 770 or its heir apparent, […]

I’ve been producing a DVD for a school that will be closing at the end of the year, and it is interesting how easy it is to manipulate footage. I’m trying not to do that, of course, but I can see how it would be easy to turn a short quote from someone into […]

What the meat industry doesn’t want you to see, the truth about how animals are treated in factory farms:
Warning: this is not for the faint of heart or a weak stomach.
Meat.org

Thursday’s episode of Democracy Now is something everyone should watch. There were two very important issues covered:
The first was about the United states’ role in Haiti’s food riots:
“As people around the world continue to protest the soaring prices of basic food items, the World Food Program has described the crisis as a silent tsunami. […]

We are governed by a political system that is increasingly manipulated by multinational corporations and special interest organizations with significant financial influence over politicians. We live in a time when a president can face impeachment for sexually lewd acts and another can be rewarded with a second term after plunging his country into a dismal […]

We felt an earthquake this morning. That was my first one. Alhamdulillah, everyone is ok.

Here is a new article posted on OneUmmah.net by Maryam Sakeenah, a contributing author:
“States in the West loyally commit themselves to it, living under a grandiose fantasy of superior humanity and a higher civilization. With this narcissistic perception comes the license to play the global Big Brother, dictating the order of things arbitrarily”
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In my attempts to find a decent replacement for Stage6 (no, Veoh is not cutting it), I decided to give Azureus’ Vuze another look. They do have some good content, and the idea of being able to download them legally using P2P file sharing is appealing. But I can sum up why most […]